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According to an Aesop fable, the one about the hares and the frogs, 'There is always someone worse off than yourself.' Well Georgina Hayes figures that Aesop must have been stupid, because there was no one worse off than she. After her dad left the family with not enough money to pay the rent she, her mom, and her little brother had been living in their car. They cleaned up in the mornings in the bathroom at McDonold's or the drugstore or the pancake house and then went to school in wrinkled, dirty clothes. So when Georgina sees an old tattered sign offering a $500 reward for the return of someone's dog, she thinks she has the answer. After all stealing someone's dog to get a reward is OK if your really, really desperate. Or is it?
Awards nominated: Blue Stem Nominee 2011
Reviewed by: caroll
Date read: 5/5/2010
ISBN-10: 0312561121
ISBN-13: 9780312561123
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Georgina and her mother and brother are living in their old car after being evicted from an apartment. They were left almost penniless when their dad/husband left. Georgina's mama is busy with two jobs while the kids are in school. Georgina wants to help mama and especially wants to quit living in the car; so she concocts a plan to do so. She plots all the steps to accomplish the plan but may have forgotten a step or two. This young girl is presented in a passionate way by the author. Will she develop a more keen sense of what's right when everything else seems wrong?
Awards nominated: Bluestem Nominee 2011
Reviewed by: cj
Date read: 7/12/2010
ISBN-10: 0374334978
ISBN-13: 9780374334970
Vivid, eye-catching illustrations show farm animals dashing to a special event. With simple, exclamatory phrases, each kind of animal is urged to hurry as not to miss the occasion. The end finds all the animals gathered to witness the hatching of an egg.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0152054103
ISBN-13: 9780152054106
Hurty Feelings
Helen Lester (2004), 32 pages
Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
Audience: Preschool - 1st Grade
Fragility the hippopotamus's feelings are easily hurt. No matter how much her friends try to compliment her, she finds a way to be offended. They start to avoid her for fear of hurting her more. Then she meets up with Rudy the elephant, a bully, who finds out that insults can be turned back on you.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0618410821
ISBN-13: 9780618410828
Steve Jenkins, who has amazed us with titles Actual Size, What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, and Living Color, introduces us to six different biomes around the world. This informational, 'seek and find' book is a visual feast for the viewer, as well. We can find tiny elf owls in the desert, an oyster catcher in the tide pool, a spider monkey in the jungle, a secretary bird on the savanna, a red spotted newt in the pond, and, of course, a kookaburra in the forest. Each habitat gives us eight indigenous examples. At the end of the book, a glossary gives us just enough information to want to make us learn more.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/13/2009
ISBN-10: 0618507647
ISBN-13: 9780618507641
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